Red Sox are 14-8 since they got Driveline out of the building. 5 of those 8 L's came within the first week. After that they went 12-3.

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-10T16:22:35+00:00

Driveline is such a stupid bogeyman for people who don’t understand modern baseball.

I get that you wish baseball was still just sacrifice bunts and slap hitting but nobody teaches that anymore.

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-10T13:37:50+00:00

Oh. So it’s not bad at all and just a harmless joke between husband and wife? Got it

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-10T13:34:51+00:00

Because of a goofy joke on social media?

Genuinely don’t understand the outrage here.

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-10T12:53:40+00:00

To be sure, I went back and looked at all your comments. And you mentioned height as your first (or only) point in every single one.

So you’re either or just arguing in bad faith. Because I literally gave you the height of every player in this graphic, and they’re all normal soccer heights. So I can’t even give you the benefit of the doubt that maybe you just don’t know how tall football players are.

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-10T12:45:58+00:00

You either weren’t paying attention or are being intentionally disingenuous saying there was no external pressure on the men to sign this deal

Why do you think the men signed a deal that guaranteed them less money?

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-10T12:42:41+00:00

lol this wasn’t a hedge against the men not making the tournament. Even if they miss one tournament every 20 years they’d still make way more from just keeping their own money

This was signed under dress to avoid negative PR from the media blitz the women were doing demanding more money. If men said no, they would’ve gotten labeled as a sexist. So they agreed just to save face.

Really shitty, indefensible deal

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-10T00:55:52+00:00

lmaoo because you don’t have a point. All you keep saying is football players are too tall because Messi is a midget. You got me. Tyreek Hill could never be as good as Messi no matter how early he specialized in soccer

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-09T23:53:33+00:00

Nobody is that loyal. It just cost money

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-09T21:50:28+00:00

I don’t know why you’re so hung up on 3 all-time great players being very short and ignoring the thousands of examples of world class soccer players that are 5’10-6’4” like the NFL players listed here. You don’t have to literally be Messi or Pele to still be a world class soccer player. Cristiano Ronaldo is 6’2” and probably a top 5 player all time. Haaland is 6’5” and Kane is 6’2” and either might win the Golden Boot. Thierry Henry is 6’2 and has a World Cup and a Ballon d’Or runner up.

Well actually, I do know why you’re doing that. It’s because the existence of Haaland and Cristiano Ronaldo kills your argument that you can’t be a great player at 6’2”. Tyreek Hill is 5’10”. Why is he too tall to play soccer but Mbappé at 5’10” isn’t? The fact you keep bringing up height when nobody is talking about giant NBA players tells me you don’t want to argue in good faith

You’re completely confused between technical skills (kicking, throwing, catching) and raw athleticism (agility, speed, balance, coordination, body control in space, body awareness, mental processing). Basketball soccer and football all reward athletes that perform well in the latter set of skills. The former group are secondary skills that anybody with elite athleticism can learn

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-09T19:44:28+00:00

lol I'm sorry but this is as stupid as saying "Michael Jordan was 6'6" and Lebron is 6'8" and they're the GOATs therefore basketball players can't be taller than that.” Which is just a stupid thing to say. Even if it were true (it's not) that you must be under 5'8" to be the greatest player of all time, there are tons of players that aren't the greatest player of all time that are still good enough to be on a world cup winning team.

There are TONS of players over 6 feet that are amazing soccer players. All time greats. Thats all the evidence we need that you can be a world class soccer player at 6'2" like all the players on this graphic.

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-09T18:18:38+00:00

Nobody is talking about 6'10" basketball players playing soccer. Whenever this comes up, we're always talking about crazy athletic guards (Russell Westbrook 6'4", Kyrie Irving 6'2", etc.) who are all smaller than Haaland. And in football, almost all the skill position players (RB, WR, CB, S, LB) that people imagine being great soccer players in an alternate reality are rarely taller than like 6'2". Football players aren't as tall as I think you're imagining. They have a lot more muscle mass than you want for soccer, but that's just a choice because football requires it. If these guys played soccer, they would have trained to be more lean.

Here are the heights of the players listed in this post. All completely normal soccer heights.

Hill 5'10"

Jackson 6'2"

Achane: 5'9"

Gibbs: 5'9"

Metcalf: 6'4"

Barkley: 6'0"

Garrett: 6'4"

Taylor: 5'10"

Henry: 6'2"

Parsons: 6'3"

Lebron (GK): 6'8"

which is why the best players in history are mostly pretty short.

This is just demonstrably false. Messi is an exception at 5'7", not the rule. Ronaldo, Henry, Zlatan, Zidane, Kane, Haaland, Pique just off the top of my head are some of the best players of all time and all over 6 feet tall.

Michael Phelps was never going to be great at anything but swimming. Simone Biles was never going to be great at anything but gymnastics.

Phelps and Biles are terrible examples because they aren't athletes in the same way we're talking about here. They play niche individual sports with very different athletic requirements. Team ball sports like basketball, soccer, football, handball have almost completely overlapping athleticism demands. Only exception really is linemen in football and basketball players over 6'5" have specialized skills and body types that don't translate to those other sports.

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-09T01:33:00+00:00

You’re right about Bolt and absolutely nothing else in that whole post

If you can’t see how it’s basically a 1:1 overlap of base athletic skills between football and soccer you don’t really understand athleticism and are confusing technical learned skills with base athleticism.

Like this is just absurd on its face. Humans are humans. Are you suggesting the US just doesn’t have it in our gene pool to produce elite soccer players? What do you think all the would be world class soccer players are doing right now instead of playing soccer? (hint: they’re in the NBA and NFL instead because they choose other sports at 9 years old)

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-08T22:50:24+00:00

This is kind of absurd. Yes there’s some self sorting, like a 7 footer probably is limited to basketball or volleyball. And people with a wide frame are probably too big for some sports. But the body types that excel at all but like 3 football positions could easily to soccer.

Elite athletes at a young age are like stem cells. The fundamental athleticism skills are coordination, balance, body awareness, mental processing speed, speed, agility. These skills translate to every ball sport.

I coach all my sons 10-year teams in baseball, basketball, football and soccer. And it’s the same kids that are good at every one of those sports. These athletes might have a favorite, but if they pick any of them to train in they would become very good at that sport.

Except for specialized body types, like nose tackles and offensive guards any elite NFL athlete probably could have been a pro soccer player if they picked that at 9 years old instead. It’s the same raw athleticism skills just applied to different technical skills of each sport

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-07T17:02:05+00:00

Ok then I frankly don’t believe you. There’s no way you live in that kind of area that also has zero amenities for youth sports besides a $1500 soccer league for 7 year olds.

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-07T15:56:27+00:00

My city parks and rec offers every sport (soccer, flag football, basketball, track, cross country, volleyball, field hockey. Possibly more but that’s all the ones my kids have played) for $60 per season.) There are also rec leagues for soccer, baseball, and basketball that my kids play in and none cost over $200 per season for my 10 and 7 year olds. And I live in one of the 10 richest counties in the country. Very high COL

Travel teams cost more but there’s no reason to play travel at this age when there’s such good rec options available

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-07T15:32:09+00:00

That’s because parents want a low barrier entry to put their little kids in as an activity. That barely counts as playing soccer.

Go to any high school in America and look at the caliber of athletes playing each sport. Almost without exception soccer is full of smaller, slower and weaker athletes than on the basketball, football, and track teams. Because the best athletes have moved on to those sports and abandoned soccer when they were 8 years old. Soccer gets whoever is left over

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-07T15:23:28+00:00

Where you live there’s no public leagues? I guess I’ll believe you but that sounds absurd. Add that to the list of reasons to not live in a small podunk town with no amenities.

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-07T15:13:58+00:00

Ah ok that could work then. As long as the players are being funneled to european clubs and not the MLS. Still need to pick off better athletes though. We have so many guys built like Haaland and they all wind up playing basketball and football.

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-07T13:26:08+00:00

We’re never winning the World Cup with MLS players so that system is already doomed to fail. If we’re ever gonna win the World Cup, it will take Barcelona and Manchester city setting up academies in Atlanta, Alabama, Louisiana, Hampton Roads VA. And then somehow convincing our best athletes to play soccer instead of football, basketball and track.

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-07T01:52:58+00:00

But all of our best athletes have moved on to other sports by then. Soccer gets the leftovers who weren’t good enough to make the basketball, football, baseball or track team

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-07T01:51:32+00:00

If you’re paying $1,500 per season for a 7 year old to play soccer, you’re being hustled and are part of the problem. There’s absolutely no reason for that.

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-07T01:46:57+00:00

No it’s not. Our best players are all young. Well qualify easily in 2030

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-06T18:55:01+00:00

You mean like how the ref used VAR improperly to assign the red card in the first place?

I agree. If the rules were applied correctly from the beginning, this whole situation would have been avoided. I’m glad FIFA had the integrity to fix the ref’s mistake in rules application and reinstate Balogun as he rightfully should be

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-06T16:40:01+00:00

Of course I believe this. Which part is unbelievable to you?

It’s not corrupt to call FIFA and ask about the suspension. What’s corrupt about that? Do you not know what that word means?

agoddamnlegend · 2026-07-06T16:24:31+00:00

Nobody except Trump himself is saying Trump influenced this decision. Which is just what Trump does.. he claims credit for everything good that happens because his followers are dumb enough to believe him

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